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Wedding photographers used to be deeply uncool.
It was the last thing a real photographer wanted to be. The butt of every fashion photographers jokes. Weddings weren’t art. It was just uncreative work capturing an event. But NOW?

Being a wedding photographer is the cool job in photography. Weddings are cool.

And while iPhone content and generated images eat the rest of the photo world…. photographing a once in a lifetime, in real life, wedding day is more important, respected and valued than ever!

At the same time, the tools for creating photos at weddings are better than ever before.
We have insane cameras now.
We have software specifically made to help wedding photographers get faster.

Aftershoot just dropped a HUGE update and the software is better than ever. It’s a wild time to be a wedding photographer. The golden age if you will.

Here’s why ⬇️

(Images above: uncommon___sense and ela.tatiana.photography)

1. Culling used to take… FOREVER.
Culling is up there in the 'jobs photographers hate doing' list. The problem is it's a super critical part of the creative process... Chosing and curating your images in the cull is a hard thing to let AI do... It feels like giving up control. So a lot of photographers stuck to manual, long hours culling.

In this new update from Aftershoot the philosophy is not, let AI choose for you but let AI help you choose faster. 

The big improvement is 'duplicate grouping.' True duplicates (burst shots, minor expression changes) get grouped and the best frame is selected and shown to you. It recognises when you change composition on purpose and suggests that as it's own select. 

It's smarter than ever at suggesting the best images. Not just doing it for you. 

2. New RAW editing (without Lightroom)
This is a BIG one.

Aftershoot now lets you edit, tweak and export RAW images directly inside the app. You get full manual slider controls just like Lightroom. You can even import your Lightroom presets if you want them.

The old workflow with AI editing used to always involve sending images to Lightroom for a final touch up. Now you can do it all in one app. 

For photographers who've been waiting for a real reason to consider ditching Adobe. it actually looks like it could now happen. A scary but exciting future.

3. Most photographer don’t retouch (they should) 
Retouching always took FOREVER. So long that most wedding photographers never did it, never promised it to their couples. But now you actually can.

Take out those small blemishes, get those fly-away hairs… It’s the little things.

Aftershoot's retouching tools just got a serious upgrade and now they are very usable in a wedding workflow. There's also a new cloth dewrinkle tool. A slider that removes wrinkles from clothing while keeping fabric texture intact. NICE.

It's kind of crazy that you can now go from culling to exporting final edited and retouched images all in one place. 

Workflow Changes take time. 

We know workflow changes are a big commitment. But there's so much happening and improving in Aftershoot all the time, you need to jump in at some point. 

You can try Aftershoot and all it's features COMPLETELY FREE for 30 days... and then when you decide to go all in, use the code LENSEL to get 15% off your plan. 

The Golden Age
YES it’s an incredible time to be a wedding photographer. More culturally relevant and impactful than ever before. And all software and tools to help us continue improving are there at your finger tips…

Time to jump in.

This month in Lensel PRO is all about ‘POSITIONING’ and how to think about your brand and strategy to get the kind of clients you want…

We had Jack Henry in to give a workshop and he dropped some absolute GOLD.

One core idea: most photographers trying to grow their bookings are quietly working against themselves. More posting, more visibility, more noise… but in ways that slowly erode the very brand they're trying to build.

"The mistake a lot of people make is they try to increase their awareness in a way that sacrifices their brand. You need to find ways to increase your awareness while also increasing the brand at the same time. Otherwise they just cancel each other out." — Jack Henry

We will just leave this one here.

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The full workshop replay, plus everything else happening this month around positioning, is inside Lensel PRO.

Sav & Cam’s work on this day is truely something else. Incredible frames that notice the small moments, elevated editorial portraits and of course those stunning film tones. PLUS their commentary about how they shot this day is ‘shooting weddings philosophy 101’.

We love their approach and you’ll love reading this feature.

“I shot a lot more film this weekend because I was just so inspired by what was around me. Kayla and Oliver’s trust and energy, being on The Farm and having creative freedom, the amazing style - all of it made me really want to lean into film more. It always feels a little risky, to this day I’m always so nervous to look at the scans when they arrive because I have a fear that for some reason nothing came out. But as soon as I went through the images I knew it was worth it. Film is unreplicable and perfectly encapsulates the feelings that I want to convey.”

See this wedding featured from the photographers POV on lensel.com

⬇️ this first to be entrant for most iconic wedding photo of 2026 already… Plus Micaella Jelin is a magician and every frames here needs to be studied. Go. Dive. In.

⬇️ What a way to show off a train… + we love the use of light finding those darker backgrounds to make the subject pop.

⬇️ Posing inspo alert. With a bunch of frame ideas that would 100% work at weddings.

⬇️ That light use again. Finding the shadow line and turning what might have been a hard lighting situation into something super interesting.